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ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2015

Shift and adapt: the costs and benefits of karyotype variations.

Aleeza C Gerstein, Judith Berman

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Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Aleeza C GersteinDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Judith BermanDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Electronic address: jberman@post.tau.ac.il.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Women's CancerP30CA077598 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Douglas Yee · 1998 to 2026
$100.4M
Genome Integrity in Candida albicansR01AI062427 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI BERMAN, JUDITH G. · 2005 to 2014
$3.6M
Centromere Structure and Function in Candida albicansR01AI075096 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BERMAN, JUDITH G. · 2008 to 2012
$2.6M
Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchNCI NIH HHS P30 CA077598NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI062427NIAID NIH HHS R01AI0624273NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI075096NIAID NIH HHS R01AI075096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Variation is the spice of life or, in the case of evolution, variation is the necessary material on which selection can act to enable adaptation. Karyotypic variation in ploidy (the number of homologous chromosome sets) and aneuploidy (imbalance in the number of chromosomes) are fundamentally different than other types of genomic variants. Karyotypic variation emerges through different molecular mechanisms than other mutational events, and unlike mutations that alter the genome at the base pair level, rapid reversion to the wild type chromosome number is often possible. Although karyotypic variation has long been noted and discussed by biologists, interest in the importance of karyotypic variants in evolutionary processes has spiked in recent years, and much remains to be discovered about how karyotypic variants are produced and subsequently selected.

Indexed as

Cell Physiological PhenomenaGenetic VariationKaryotypePloidiesSelection, Genetic

Identifiers

PMID26321163
PMCPMC4577464
OpenAlexW1900287502

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